Macbeth was a great war hero, he had just put down an uprising in Scotland, as he was riding through the woods, with his friend, Banquo, and three witches appear before them and tell Macbeth that he will become Thane of Cowdor and then King of Scotland, and then to Banquo they tell him that he will not be King, but his children would. At first Macbeth shows some disbelief, but soon King Duncan makes Macbeth the Thane of Cowdor

and Macbeth suddenly sees that the witches or “weird sisters” as they are sometimes called were telling the truth, and that it was in his future to become King. When he reveals this to Lady Macbeth they devise a plan to make Macbeth King more quickly by killing the current King, Duncan, it seems like the perfect crime, kill the king and set it up to make it look like the drunk guards did it. At first it goes well, instead of blaming the guard the King’s two sons take the blame, because shortly after their fathers

This is when things really start to go downhill for Macbeth, first at dinner that night, in front of all of the lords in Scotland, he hallucinates and thinks he sees Banquo’s ghost, then he goes to see the witches again and they give his three apparitions that say he cannot be killed by anyone who is born of a women, and that nothing shall happen to him until the Birnam woods come to Dunsinane and another that says beware of MacDuff. This curiously strikes Macbeth, and when he fins that MacDuff has gone to England he calls him a traitor and

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